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                       AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILL NO. 1263
                                    Sponsor:  REPRESENTATIVE VEREB
                                           Printer's No. 2157

     1       Amend Title, page 1, line 4, by inserting after "PROVIDING"
     2               for disclosure of contents, for requirements, for
     3               requirements for governmental access and

     4       Amend Title, page 1, line 4, by removing the period after
     5    "CHAPTER" and inserting
     6               ; and making an editorial change.
     7       Amend Bill, page 1, lines 7 and 8, by striking out all of
     8    said lines and inserting
     9       Section 1.  Section 5742 heading and (a) introductory
    10    paragraph of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
    11    are amended, subsection (a) is amended by adding a paragraph and
    12    the section is amended by adding subsections to read:
    13    § 5742.  Disclosure of contents and records.
    14       (a)  Prohibitions.--Except as provided in subsection (b) and
    15    (c):
    16           * * *
    17           (3)  A person or entity providing an electronic
    18       communication service or remote computing service to the
    19       public shall not knowingly divulge a record or other
    20       information pertaining to a subscriber to, or customer of,
    21       the service.
    22       ** *
    23       (c)  Exceptions for disclosure of records or other
    24    information.--A person or entity may divulge a record or other
    25    information pertaining to a subscriber to, or customer of, the
    26    service if any of the following paragraphs apply:
    27           (1)  A record or other information may be divulged
    28       incident to any service or other business operation or to the
    29       protection of the rights or property of the provider.
    30           (2)  A record or other information may be divulged to any
    31       of the following:
    32               (i)  An investigative or law enforcement official as
    33           authorized in section 5743.
    34               (ii)  The subscriber or customer upon request.
    35               (iii)  A third party, upon receipt from the requester
    36           of adequate proof of lawful consent from the subscriber
    37           to, or customer of, the service to release the


     1           information to the third party.
     2               (iv)  A party to a legal proceeding, upon receipt
     3           from the party of a court order entered under subsection
     4           (c.1). This subparagraph does not apply to an
     5           investigative or law enforcement official authorized
     6           under section 5743.
     7           (3)  Notwithstanding paragraph (2), a record or other
     8       information may be divulged as authorized by a Commonwealth
     9       statute or as authorized by a Commonwealth regulatory agency
    10       with oversight over the person or entity.
    11           (4)  Subject to paragraph (2), a record or other
    12       information may be divulged as authorized by Federal law or
    13       as authorized by a Federal regulatory agency having oversight
    14       over the person or entity.
    15       (c.1)  Order for release of records.--
    16           (1)  An order to divulge a record or other information
    17       pertaining to a subscriber or customer under subsection
    18       (c)(2)(iv) must be approved by a court presiding over the
    19       proceeding in which a party seeks the record or other
    20       information.
    21           (2)  The order may be issued only after the subscriber or
    22       customer received notice from the party seeking the record or
    23       other information and was given an opportunity to be heard.
    24           (3)  The court may issue a preliminary order directing
    25       the provider to furnish the court with the identity of or
    26       contact information for the subscriber or customer if the
    27       party does not possess this information.
    28           (4)  An order for disclosure of a record or other
    29       information shall be issued only if the party seeking
    30       disclosure demonstrates specific and articulable facts to
    31       show that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the
    32       record or other information sought is relevant and material
    33       to the proceeding. In making its determination, the court
    34       shall consider the totality of the circumstances, including
    35       input of the subscriber or customer, if any, and the likely
    36       impact of the provider.
    37       Section 2.  Sections 5743(c)(1), 5746(a) and 5781 of Title 18
    38    are amended to read:
    39    § 5743.  Requirements for governmental access.
    40       * * (c)  Records concerning electronic communication service
    41       or remote computing service.--
    42           [(1)  Except as provided in paragraph (2), a provider of
    43       electronic communication service or remote computing service
    44       may disclose a record or other information pertaining to a
    45       subscriber to or customer of the service, not including the
    46       contents of communication covered by subsection (a) or (b),
    47       to any person other than an investigative or law enforcement
    48       officer.]
    49           * * *
    50    § 5746.  Cost reimbursement.
    51       (a)  Payment.--Except as otherwise provided in subsection
    52    (c), an investigative or law enforcement officer obtaining the
    53    contents of communications, records or other information under
    54    section 5742 (relating to disclosure of contents and records),
    55    5743 (relating to requirements for governmental access) or 5744
    56    (relating to backup preservation) shall reimburse the person or
    57    entity assembling or providing the information for such costs as
    58    are reasonably necessary and which have been directly incurred
    59    in searching for, assembling, reproducing and otherwise

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     1    providing the information. Reimbursable costs shall include any
     2    costs due to necessary disruption of normal operations of any
     3    electronic communication service or remote computing service in
     4    which the information may be stored.
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     6       Amend Sec. 2, page 1, line 12, by striking out "2" and
     7    inserting
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